The King with Three Crowns and the Seven-Headed Hydra
The King and the Queen as the central motif, with the Serpent and the Dragon, the Crown, the Demon and the Monster and the Angel and the Wing in a secondary part. From The Flamel figures.
What is happening
Apocalypse 19:11 “And I saw heaven opened: and behold a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called faithful and true: and with justice doth he judge and fight.”
Apocalypse 19:14 “And the armies that are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.”
Apocalypse 20:3 “And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should no more seduce the nations till the thousand years be finished.”
Key · 5 motifs
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- Primary motif
- Secondary motifs · 4
The picture
A king wearing three crowns is enthroned on a cloud at the right while a green many-headed hydra rises before him; below, a red horned figure kneels and a winged figure in blue holds a key; riders on clouds at the upper left; the King and the Queen as the central motif, the Serpent and the Dragon and the Crown by eye; a red horned figure kneels in chains below the throne. By eye
Decoded: every motif is marked, and each mark carries the reading its author gave it, quoted from the text, or says that it is observed on the picture and not read. The composition, the picture read whole in our own words, comes with the entry.
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By eye The central motif, the king enthroned at the right, his robe flecked with red, a sword out of his mouth.
Apocalypse 19:15 “And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he may strike the nations.”
Apocalypse 19:13 “And he was clothed with a garment sprinkled with blood. And his name is called: THE WORD OF GOD.”
Completion, and in the Kabbalistic reading the first sephirah, the point at which the work is no longer yours.
By eye A secondary motif, the many-pointed crown on his head.
Apocalypse 19:12 “And his eyes were as a flame of fire: and on his head were many diadems.”
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By eye A secondary motif, the angel below, the key in one hand and the chain running from the other.
Apocalypse 20:1 “And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.”
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By eye A secondary motif, the horned figure kneeling in chains at the edge of the fire.
Apocalypse 20:2 “And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”
No entry yet for this motif. The wall gathers every work that carries it.
By eye A secondary motif, the green many-headed beast rising through the cloud at the centre.
Symbolica The chapter that gives the angel, the key and the chain calls what is bound a dragon and an old serpent, and this painter has drawn both: a serpent in chains below and a many-headed beast above. Which one the twentieth chapter means is not settled here, so the beast is recorded and left unread.
Also carrying the King and the Queen
5 works, 4 with it as the central motif. The symbol.
Also carrying the Serpent and the Dragon
11 works. The symbol.
Also carrying the Crown
10 works. The symbol.
Also carrying the Demon and the Monster
6 works. The symbol.
Also carrying the Angel and the Wing
16 works. The symbol.
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